For the last two decades, TT Games has had almost complete control over the LEGO video game market, releasing countless licensed titles from LEGO Star Wars to LEGO Batman to LEGO Marvel, and just about everything in between. The most recent release from TT Games was 2022's LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which paved the way for a new age of large-scale, open-world LEGO titles, and it seems like the studio is already hard at work on its next game: another large-scale title based on the Harry Potter franchise.
Thanks to a recent report from Nintendo Life, it's been tentatively confirmed that a handful of projects over at TT Games have just been canceled, with only a LEGO Harry Potter game in a similar vein to The Skywalker Saga surviving the cull. While some of these projects had some real potential, it's easy to understand that TT Games' resources may have been stretched too thin, and focusing just on a new LEGO Harry Potter game seems like the smart move right now.
TT Games is Smart to Focus on Harry Potter Right Now
The recent report from Nintendo Life suggests that four big-profile projects have just been canceled at TT Games. These cancelations include a LEGO Guardians of the Galaxy game that was reportedly in development for 18 months, a mobile port of LEGO Worlds, a non-LEGO shooter set to feature a plethora of Warner Bros. characters, and a Diablo-like Disney game using characters from across the company's history. According to the report, a new LEGO Batman game has also been put on hold, as has a Mandalorian narrative DLC for LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
While there are surely a good few reasons behind these cancelations, Nintendo Life suggests that the biggest reason behind these decisions was to give more resources to the development of a new LEGO Harry Potter title. Though Nintendo Life's report doesn't have too many details on this game, it does mention that it's being designed on a similar scale to The Skywalker Saga, likely meaning multiple open-world hubs, missions that span the entire franchise, and hundreds of playable characters.
Putting all the studio's resources into a new LEGO Harry Potter game is probably a very smart decision to make right now. Despite all the controversies surrounding it, the recent Hogwarts Legacy has performed incredibly well sales-wise, selling over 12 million copies in just its first two weeks and having continued to sell ridiculously well since. It's clear that the Harry Potter IP is still incredibly lucrative, and it only makes sense that Warner Bros. would want to cash in on this success as much as possible, which could potentially mean putting pressure on TT Games to deliver a LEGO Harry Potter game as soon as possible.
But while all of these cancelations could potentially stem from a desire to cash in on the latest trends, that isn't really TT Games' MO, and regardless of any publisher pressures, the studio is likely to put its full heart and soul into creating the best LEGO Harry Potter game it possibly can. Before LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga's release, TT Games released a handful of behind-the-scenes videos, and each one showed the immense passion the team had for the Star Wars IP. That's a large part of why The Skywalker Saga felt so fun to play, as it was clear that it was a game for the fans, built by fans. So, if TT Games is currently hard at work on a new LEGO Harry Potter, then fans can be sure that the team behind it is just as passionate.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is available for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.